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8831Raelianews - official news of the Raelian MovementMidwest Raelians present lecture at Ohio State Universityhttp://raelianews.org/midwest-raelians-present-lecture-at-ohio-state-university.html
They presented a lecture to a group of about 30 students, staff, and organizing members of the on-campus Club who had scheduled the event as a part of their ongoing study of diverse religious organizations, philosophies, and ideologies. The event took place at the William Oxley Thompson Library located in the center of the expansive campus.Following the presentation that covered the history, origin, and philosophical principles of the Raelian Organization; Mary and Larry spent the rest of the allotted time answering questions from the attendees who appeared genuinely interested to learn more and become more familiar with our revolutionary organization. On the photo: Larry and Mary, with event organizers, Jordan Baggs and Corey Resweber in front of campus Student Union (Malini Srikrishna, not pictured)]]>North AmericaFelixTue, 27 Mar 2018 23:11:18 +0000http://raelianews.org/midwest-raelians-present-lecture-at-ohio-state-university.htmlIranian and American women, similar discrimination, same fighthttp://raelianews.org/iranian-and-american-women-similar-discrimination-same-fight.html
On the 1st Sunday of April, not only I officially joined the Raelian Movement, but also, I was honored to be appointed as the National Guide responsible for Iran. The event was a beautiful mini-Seminar (Happiness Academy) in Antalya, Turkey. Besides couple of different nationalities, there were Iranian and Israeli members, united in love and the most peaceful atmosphere ever, that made the experience beyond imagination.

The year also comprised significance in the history of the Raelian Movement. Following a woman was arrested for walking topless in NYC, a hidden embodiment of discrimination was brought to the spotlight. Although the lady was released, since going out topless is legal in the state of New York, but it highlighted a contradictory point with regard to the American Constitution. It turned out that being publicly topless is illegal in many other States and may face arrest. Regardless of the obsolete Judeo-Christian – or Abrahamic religions in general – notion, that indoctrinates shamefulness of the body, this restriction could have made some sense if it included men as well. Whereas the prohibition does not apply to men in those States, hence the law is fundamentally against Equal Rights Amendment of the Constitution.

Accordingly, Rael, the founder and spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, initiated a campaign to demand equal rights as the US Constitution requires. Today, the campaign is well-known throughout the country and somehow in global aspect.

Going back to my story, in less than a year after I returned back to Iran, with new life-changing responsibilities, a member of our small team received intimidating phone calls regarding our activities. Around the same time, I was arrested by the so-called moral police on the streets of Tehran for the size of my jacket which was shortly above my knees. I was beaten violently for refusing to sit in their van and being arrested. They hurt my knee insofar as I still suffer the issue time-to-time. I complained, with nearly hundred percent certainty that it will get to nowhere, however, the aim was to stay confident that I stood and fought for my basic rights as a human and a woman.

The following year, a series of events related to my role in the Movement and also the chaos in respect of the election in Iran – which can make a great screenplay – led me to flee the country. After facing other dramas in exile and going through Obama’s sneaky ban of refugees on 2011, finally I arrived at the United States. The first year upon my arrival, I offered everything I could in support of the Gotopless Campaign, however, in the backstage. The reason was my heart was still with women’s fight regarding more primary rights in Iran. Accordingly, around the same time, I supported the campaign known by then as My Stealthy Freedom by sending them a photo of myself.

Today, the Iranian campaign, led by Masih Alinezhad – a journalist, formerly in Iran and now in US – continues the activity in the name of the White Wednesdays. The courageous women, in many cases with support of men of their lives, wear white, capture their videos or photos, unveiling in front of cameras, while speaking out and protesting against the dress code in Iran.

Looking back at the two different experiences, despite the level of inequity, I see fundamental similarities. Relatively speaking, it is quite frustrating to find out that in the time of incredible scientific and technological breakthroughs, men’s laws are still imposed on women’s body. It doesn’t really matter if the restriction, and above that, the discrimination, is about covering the nipples or hair, the fact is, there exists a disturbing notion that sexualizes, hence, materializes women’s body in a possessive trend. In other words, there is an exclusive right on women’s body that is not even under their own authorization.

As a matter of fact, even in the Quran of 14 centuries ago, there is only one verse regarding the veil for women in the Arabian culture of the time, which is merely advisory and not even a religious order according to the Arabic grammar. Nevertheless, indeed if prophet Mohammad would return, he may never recognize and confirm the laws that humiliate and disrespect the glory of creation as humanity and women in particular.

There might be an argument that in a world sitting on a ticking bomb that may explode in any moment and wipe-out the entire trace of humanity from the Earth, how would that even matter for women to free their nipples or their hair in the air, while the majority are not even willing to? the answer is: indeed, these two matters are inherently related.

Evaluating through a remarkable perspective, the major reason is resulting rapid dooming of human society could be seen as deficiency of feminine quality. The value which is the source of kindness, compassion, integration and the wellhead of consciousness and love, so to speak. Considering this vital aspect of current global crisis may perfectly elucidate an existing vicious circle; to be clearer, the mentioned deficit results disparagement toward women as the manifestation of femininity, and on the other hand, such a deluded atmosphere downplays the crucial role of feminine quality in order to entail humanity’s perpetuity.

Therefore, any activity in regard to breaking this cycle, not only is not an unnecessary and fancy demand, but it’s vitally important in saving humanity in its entirety.

Iran is pioneer of women’s active role in society among many Muslim countries. Even the Islamic ruling system never prevented women from certain social rights such as voting, driving or going to university. On the contrary, during the past decades, the number of university students statistically comprised more female than male. Moreover, the first political campaign formed during the post-revolution regime was the Women’s Campaign fighting for change or modification of the laws in favor of equal rights between men and women.

In the time that Iran is seriously the main target of the world’s warmongers, and also, the society is decaying from within, I hope the Iranian regime would understand the emergence of a drastic revision in the laws that are dealing with fundamental rights of the people and women in particular. And above that, considering such a great potential, provide the model for other Muslim countries in honoring and putting to work the life-giving feminine qualities in all aspects.

Finally, I dream for a day that the feminine quality would be celebrated throughout the planet. That day would be exactly the time that not only we can be hopeful to save our Humanity but also we may move toward creating a paradise on Earth!

Negar Azizmorandi]]>WorldElianeWMon, 16 Oct 2017 09:47:03 +0000http://raelianews.org/iranian-and-american-women-similar-discrimination-same-fight.htmlMaitreya Rael: ‘Only maximum responsibilization can save the world!’http://raelianews.org/maitreya-rael-only-maximum-responsibilization-can-save-the-world.html
One of the key values of the Raelian philosophy, as described in the book Intelligent Design, is the awareness of being responsible for ones actions. In this revolutionary book Maitreya Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, reminds us that “each of us is totally responsible for everything that we do to others even if we are ordered to do so. No cause could ever justify inflicting pain or death on a non-violent person, and even if the survival of humanity depended on it, this would not justify an exception. Even more so if it means the survival of one’s country, or rather a frontier arbitrarily traced on a globe which belongs to all men.”

The importance of responsibility was already demonstrated by a famous social psychological experiment performed by professor Stanley Milgram. One of the conclusions of his work is that “when individuals are placed in a position of hierarchical control, the mechanisms which ordinarily assure the regulation of the individual’s actions cease functioning, and his actions become controlled by the people occupying the senior position.”

Maitreya Rael is especially concerned about the abuse of such mechanisms by people who wish to manipulate the population in a process called maximum “deresponsibilization”. Based on this principle, ordinary people who simply do their job, could become agents in a terribly destructive process.

In his book Maitreya Rael asks all men of the Earth: “Don’t let your morality be hijacked. Refuse to obey any hierarchy that seeks to make you perform actions to which you would not like to be held responsible. It would be much better to die for having refused to kill than to kill under the pretext of obeying orders. He who executes these monstrous orders is in fact more responsible than he who has given them. Don't make the same mistake as the nazi Germans, or the French military officers in Algeria who believed they were working for a “greater” good. All these people have committed crimes against humanity in clear conscience and good faith. It would be much too easy to claim that it is only their duty to execute orders and that only their superiors can be held accountable for their actions!” (download Rael’s books for free on : www.rael.org/download.php)

To strengthen the process of maximum responsibilization, Maitreya Rael proposes in his book to reveal the identities of all people who have the power when obeying orders to launch nuclear missiles capable of destroying cities in a few seconds. These people should be made aware that in the case of utilisation of any such missiles, they would be judged along those who gave the orders, in a similar way as the Nuremberg trials.

Maitreya Rael forcefully reminds us that for saving humanity it is essential that all men of the Earth are very vigilant and should not accomplish the slightest action without asking themselves whether it is in contradiction to their deep sense of respect for the human being.

In an address today in front of hundreds of Raelians gathered for their annual Happiness Academy in Okinawa, Japan, Rael reminded the participants and all Raelians and non-Raelians who care for Humanity that the success of the UN negotiation for a total ban is essential and our responsibility. " If we are millions devoting just one minute meditation for peace, we can influence the decision makers to make it happen".

"Already thousands of Raelians are gathering in public places to encourage for and lead one minute meditations for peace" explains Brigitte Boisselier, PhD, spokesperson of the International Raelian Movement. " The US Raelian Movement has also taken the initiative to encourage for meditation in one of the busiest places in the world that is Times Square in New York City. Starting today, we hope that the visuals will inspire Time Square visitors to give a few seconds of their positive thoughts to help shape the future of Humanity."

Gilad has been a strong critic of the state of Israel and its policies towards Palestinians for a long time. Maitreya Rael made him an Honorary Guide for Humanity in 2009 after reading his essay “War on Terror Within: The End of Jewish History”.

Michal who only recently arrived in Los Angeles from Israel had this to say about the event:“I admire Gilad Atzmon for his courage to speak out about Jewish identity and the racism that stems from it, all this done with a lot of humor on top of that.“

US National Guide Thomas Kaenzig thanking Gilad Atzmon

Some of the attendees following the gathering.

“To be a real Jew is to be anti-zionist.” Maitreya Rael on May 14, 2017 (71aH)

Your election as Prime Minister of Canada more than a year ago brought freshness and a hope that a better world would be possible. Your decision to stop participating in the attacks in Syria was a promising start, showing lucidity and courage. However, in view of the deteriorating global political context, your government is now changing direction to blindly follow the brutal and imperialist US policies that endanger the very survival of our humanity.

A more than surprising and even completely unconscious decision was also made by the Canadian government in October 2016 when it voted NO to this wonderful UN proposal of undertaking negotiations to remove and make illegal all nuclear weapons http://www.icanw.org/. While it is clear to everyone that the nuclear threat is likely to wipe out all life on this planet, the fact that 9 countries now own more than 16,000 nuclear bombs, with automatic response systems in case of missile attack in each of these countries, represents an almost uncontrollable global danger. Whether it could be the decision of an aggressive leader, a technical failure, a human or communication error, or even an act of terrorism, everything can explode at any time. From then on, it becomes clear that only one solution can save mankind: we must suppress all these nuclear weapons as soon as possible.

ICAN’s proposal is essential to the survival of humanity. As recently mentioned by Rael, the spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement: “This is the last chance we have of saving mankind and we have only 3 months to do so” raelpress.org. There is still time to react by unconditionally supporting the new legislation banning nuclear weapons during the UN vote in July 2017.

Tension is increasing in the world therefore raising the urgency to act for peace and disarmament. Your support for the recent illegal bombing of Syria by the United States, which has shown no evidence of the Syrian government’s culpability in the use of chemical weapons, is extremely troubling! Your initial reaction to wait and demand that an inquiry be made, approach filled with wisdom, was followed by a radical about-face. This is all the more surprising given that in 2013 the Obama administration had similarly claimed the same kind of chemical weapons used by the Syrian government. However, the UN investigation concluded then that this was not the case and that the responsibility was instead the action of rebel factions supported by the United States. We also remember the famous “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, under Georges W. Bush, which proved to be nothing but lies to incite the American people to war. All these events can only invite prudence and detachment on your part from this very dangerous American imperialism.

On behalf of all Canadians and all citizens of the world, we ask you to reconsider your decision and support the July 7 vote to ban nuclear weapons. Your support will have a very powerful symbolic value for the remaining hesitant countries. If the fate of your children and all the children of the world is close to your heart, and if the life of all that is alive is valuable to you, then you must support this ICAN project at the UN. We are confident that the compassion and love of mankind will triumph over the pressures and interests of the rich and powerful who lead us straight to self-destruction.Joseph Kollar

Our organization felt it was our responsibility to be proactive in informing the public about the upcoming vote by UN members to prohibit nuclear weapons. Most developed nations refuse to participate in negotiations. We must mobilize, all of us, and get our governments to participate in this very important decision. If you want a future for yourself and your children, you need to act immediately and ask your country to agree to make nuclear weapons illegal in the same way chemical and biological weapons are internationally illegal.

All politicians and governments will be responsible if a nuclear catastrophe occurs. You will also be responsible if you don’t actively participate in changing the minds of those political leaders still refusing to join the 132 others who have agreed to establish a global ban on nuclear weapons.

The final UN vote to make nuclear weapons universally illegal is July 7th 2017, so time is very limited !!!

Join the Hibakusha Appeal for a Nuclear Ban Treaty

A plea from Hiroshima / Nagasaki survivors:

“So that the people from future generations will not have to experience hell on earth, we want to realize a world free of nuclear weapons while we are still alive.”Visit the petition page

“What we think, express and feel affect the whole planet. By sending waves of peace and love through the most powerful transmitter we have, the brain, we can make this planet more peaceful.” Maitreya Rael

CLICK HERE if you wish to know your country’s official position on the matter.

]]>North AmericaElianeWMon, 24 Apr 2017 16:50:48 +0000http://raelianews.org/lets-ban-nuclear-weapons.htmlRael encourages all countries to get atomic weaponshttp://raelianews.org/rael-encourages-all-countries-to-get-atomic-weapons.html
Yes, it’s much more “realistic” to get closer and closer to a nuclear holocaust that will destroy all humanity. And our creators will hold these idiotic politicians responsible for it.

The example given of North Korea using the atomic bomb while all “good” imperialist countries do not have it is just absurd. For example, even if it were to happen, the U.S. war machine has enough power and war planes to totally destroy North Korea without using any atomic bombs, just as it destroyed Afghanistan, Serbia, Iraq, Libya, etc.

The most terrible hypocrisy is that they refuse to forbid atomic weapons while continuing to support the nonproliferation treaty. Translation: “Only we, the superpowers can have them. Other countries cannot have them so that we can continue to dominate and bully the world.”

Sadly, the only solution is for all other countries to get nuclear weapons as soon as possible. If Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and other victims of U.S. imperialism had had them, they would have never been attacked, invaded and occupied.

The message is very clear for all countries not wanting to be the next victims of U.S./Western imperialism and neocolonialism: Get as many atomic bombs as soon as you can!

In today’s egoist world where there is no more compassion or consciousness, if there were a Gandhi, the United Kingdom would drop a nuclear bomb on him. And nobody would care.

In the same way, nobody cares about the fate of the Palestinian people, who are prisoners in the huge concentration camp of Gaza. Instead, people focus on football games and stupid new talent shows, or on the fate of a dog trapped in a hole.

The wonderful, huge peace movement that stopped the Vietnam War and made the United States lose it can no longer exist, since journalists “are embedded” among the invasion forces. And nobody cares as long as people can watch their games on TV while U.S. soldiers and drones are killing innocent children elsewhere.

Since there is no more compassion or consciousness, it’s time to partly abandon the values of absolute nonviolence that are one of the basis premises of our philosophy, even if they still apply individually. From now on, it is acceptable for Raelians of nonnuclear countries to work for the armament industries of their countries or armed forces, in order to make it impossible for Western imperialist and neocolonialist powers to attack, invade and occupy them in a new, modern colonization accomplished under the guise of “bringing democracy.”

Only they and no others around the world care at all about their nonviolence. For example, when France forcibly removed the great President Gbagbo in Ivory Coast because he wasn’t supporting French interests, nobody lifted a finger.

Sadly, the millions of Palestinian Ghandis suffering under the boots of Israeli torturers fail to trigger a reaction from the so-called “civilized world.” Such reactions did occur during the times of the original great Gandhi and the antiwar peace activists against the Vietnam War.

Sadly also, the so-called “civilized world” of the Western powers knows only the use of force. Like the great Jean de la Fontaine said long ago, “La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.” (The logic of the strongest is always the best).

So we arrive at the paradox that the allegedly modern civilized countries, with their mouthfuls of words about freedom, democracy and human rights, actually impose only the rule of the jungle. Instead, they are the real savages and barbarians of this planet, bringing us closer and closer to the total destruction of humanity. Since they understand only the use of force, it’s time for the weakest to arm themselves to the strongest degree possible, including the acquisition of nuclear weapons.

And it is also time for the formerly colonized countries to become allies against Western imperialism. It’s much safer for African or South American countries to make alliances with China or India, both of which were also devastated and occupied by Western colonizers.

It’s important to notice that the United Kingdom still hasn’t apologized for its colonization crimes in India. India’s prime minister recently called that a “collective amnesia.” In addition, France still dares to claim that African colonization was beneficial to the African people. France also still imposes money printed in France on Africans plus a “colonial tax.” Am I having a bad dream?

Now all these criminal Western powers have their eyes on Africa for new colonization. They already have many military forces there under the guise of humanitarian aid, or allegedly to protect French nationals in case of political violence.

Of course, as soon as an African president doesn’t support French pillage, he is killed by those forces. It’s also interesting to notice that there is no African military force in France to protect the African citizens there who are the victims of so much violence, racism and discrimination.

The double standard is clear: French soldiers can protect French citizens in Africa but African soldiers are not invited in France to protect African citizens. Therefore, particularly for Africa, but also for South American countries and many other countries, it’s time to get strong, create militias to expel Western occupation forces and try to get nuclear weapons as soon as possible.

No Western power will hesitate one minute to invade any of the African countries, given their current level of defense. But if they become nuclear powers, the cowardly Western powers that attack only the weakest will not lift a finger against them. The message for them is clear: In a world ruled by barbaric Western powers that apply the Law of the Jungle, you must be as strong as them. Get atomic weapons!

]]>WorldElianeWTue, 28 Mar 2017 10:40:57 +0000http://raelianews.org/rael-encourages-all-countries-to-get-atomic-weapons.htmlA French docufiction fully immersed among Raelians proves the non-danger of this new religionhttp://raelianews.org/a-french-docufiction-fully-immersed-among-raelians-proves-the-non-danger-of-this-new-religion.html
The docu-fiction, "Happiness Academy," a 70-minute feature film directed by Alain Della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita, which has already been presented at numerous film festivals including the prestigious Moma in New York in March 2017, and in October 2016 at the Fifib, the international independent film festival of Bordeaux.

The description of the film explains the reason for the immersion of a full shooting team during the European Raelian spiritual retreat, aka, Happiness Academy:

“August 70 of the Raelian era, Lily and Dominique take part for the first time in the European Happiness University. For the last forty years, Rael has been transmitting his knowledge that he received from our extraterrestrial creators in a hotel filled with candidates ready for awakening. Between documentary and fiction, Happiness Academy is a quest for the soul mate both raw and sweet, journeyed by much absurdity and humanity.”

This immersion of a shooting team in a Raelian spiritual retreat validates, as some French journalists have demonstrated in the past (Charlie hebdo), the harmlessness of this new religion.The film has the peculiarity of being shot live and capturing the reality of the different courses and Raelian teachings that serve as setting and context to a story of attraction between two women and an artist.

This setting holds a prominent place in the film and also shows the daily life of this spiritual retreat. During the entire 70 minutes of the film, no shocking scenes appear thus confirming that none of the accusations that have been made against the Raelian religion are credible. No reprehensible act can be seen or assumed, nothing.

In the end, the film shows consenting and free adults participating in a personal development seminar. One may not like the style nor be convinced of the Raelian hypotheses on the origin of life and the reasons behind it, but the fact remains that it will be increasingly difficult to give credence to the French accusations aimed at characterizing the Raelian Movement as dangerous and not respecting the laws and human dignity.

Orthodox scientists do not like to be told about UFOs because, for many of them, the interest is nonexistent and such a topic is outside the scope of their methodology. According to them, scientific research must lead to a discourse on nature and must be tangible because science is only concerned with observable and reproducible phenomena. Thus, still according to them, a study that relies solely on testimonies and interpretations of unverifiable observations has more to do with psychology or sociology, and certainly not with science.

This clearly illustrates the level of apathy that exists within the scientific community regarding the subject and is nothing more than an expedient way of rejecting thousands of testimonies related to flying saucers that have shown, time and again, impressive and unexplained capabilities that defy the imagination. The maneuvers executed by these flying objects and described by random observers have proven to be extremely consistent, and have provided a clear and systematic picture of the characteristics that these flying objects display. These vehicles appear to be intelligently and skillfully piloted by their occupants, and very often they execute vertical ascensions at extremely high velocities. Only a minority of cases testify to the presence of non-human occupants in these vehicles.

Moreover, landing marks have been found on the ground as well as alterations of the vegetation at the cellular level, breakdown of cars from a distance, physiological effects on witnesses, and even observations made by highly credible witnesses who stood relatively close to these enigmatic machines.

Those who speak in the name of “official science” argue that no planet in our solar system is inhabited and therefore potential visitors would clearly have to come from a distant planetary system. Furthermore, according to them, the distance that separates us from the closest stars is such that it would make it virtually impossible for us to ever establish a direct contact with any civilization outside of our solar system.

The speeds that our man-made spacecrafts are susceptible to reach is laughable when it comes to the distance to be travelled, and the duration of such a journey would be incompatible with human life expectancy. Thus, the journey could only be a one-way ticket and it would likely spread over several generations or require the use of cryogenic preservation.

Several seemingly insurmountable obstacles would need to be addressed:

There is the problem of carrying the mass of combustible material needed for these crafts to propel themselves in space. However, eye witnesses never reported seeing a trail of combusted material coming out of these UFOs. Instead, these objects always moved silently at very high acceleration only emitting a small light. This is quite a contrast to our slow and noisy rockets that use the principle of kinetic momentum preservation. Indeed, the amount of movement or force of the motion executed by the UFO, which is the product of its mass by its velocity, should theoretically be compensated by an equal and opposite force obtained from the ejection at very high speed of a combustible material stored onboard the ship. This means that the amount of potential kinetic energy to be loaded onboard for an interstellar voyage (or even simply to carry out the observed accelerated motion) is completely incompatible with the approximate size and mass of these UFOs. Witnesses never report seeing a trail of combusted material, and from the given description of the crafts witnessed they appear way too small to store any combustible energy required for an interstellar voyage regardless of the form, including the most exotic forms imaginable such as ’annihilation of matter/anti-matter.

Another issue has to do with the acceleration of these UFOs. Eye witnesses have all observed enormous changes in speed, chaotic trajectories with abrupt changes in direction that would make it impossible for any human to withstand due to our physiology. How could any biological organism survive such brutal conditions?

... and yet there are visitors from outer space who are proving that the journey is definitely possible!

The daily accounts by credible witnesses of extraterrestrial crafts flying in our skies clearly indicate that there is a solution to all the problems mentioned:

Their very presence is a clear sign that they are able to survive the journey at a speed compatible with the distance covered, and that they have an enormous source of energy at their disposal, one that we still struggle conceptualizing within the narrow framework of present-day science.

How is it possible to achieve such a significant acceleration and reach speeds of up to several thousands of miles per second, and even speeds that are near or above the speed of light? What technology and what kind of energy can we use to achieve this, and where can we find it?

The obvious acceleration observed suggests that the living entities in the UFOs are not affected by it. Could it be that each passenger is subjected to the same acceleration field and gravitational flux as the chair they sit on?

This indicates that the beings who visit us know where to harness the needed energy from and they have solved the issue of creating and controlling gravitational fluxes.

If we would conquer anti-gravitation technology and were able to harness the energy from the diffused energetic fields that we bathe in, everything would change.The accelerations and speeds that could be reached would be considerable (thousands of g). The problems related to physiological resistance at great accelerations would be solved.

But before we get to that point, we will have to radically change the way we look at the structure of both matter and space. The main stumbling block for us today is a conceptual one coupled with a clear ignorance of what the fine structure of matter truly is. The path we will not further elaborate on here is the one that deals with the acceptance of a model of an infinite universe that has a fractal and multi-leveled structure that goes in both the infinitely large and the infinitely small. As above so below.

For a very long time now, we have had solitary pioneers working tirelessly to unravel the secrets of gravitation. A draft answering all these questions currently exists, and the most advanced of these pioneering researchers is Claude Poher. “Claude Poher (born in 1936) is a retired French engineer from the National Center for Space Studies (CNES). He is an engineer in space research and electronics, and also holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics. He is best known for his involvement in the creation of a Study Group working on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEPAN), the first official ufology bureau created in France in 1977, and devoted to the study of the UFO phenomenon.”

For nearly forty years he has dedicated his life in the elucidation of the major gravitational energy enigma: where did the kinetic energy from the stars in all the galaxies come from, and where did the kinetic energy from the flying saucers described by credible eye witnesses come from? Not to mention, how do you explain the mechanism with which these massive space vehicles propel themselves without releasing any combustible material?

As early as 1980, he was already embracing the notion that the galaxies’ gravitational enigma was intimately intertwined with that of the propulsion of these incredible flying objects. Indeed, in both cases there had to be a humongous source of energy that stars and UFOs could draw from, and this colossal and diffused energy had to be usable anywhere in the Universe.

According to Claude Poher, it was inconceivable that such an energy be only attributable to the gravitational potential energy brought about by a "hidden mass of unknown and invisible matter" merely surrounding the galaxies in a halo of incredible size. It was imperative for this same energy in the meadow of the local farmer where a flying saucer had flown at great acceleration to be exploitable. It was then, in 1980, that he imagined the theoretical concept of an isotropic cosmic flux of quanta each carrying a tiny amount of movement that he named, Universons. In his mind, this was what he believed to be the cause of gravitation.

The existence of this natural flux was essential in order to solve the two enigmas, and it was then necessary to try and understand how to extract kinetic energy from this natural flux.

At first, he did not yet have the slightest idea about the interaction between this hypothetical flux and matter, therefore a lot still needed to be imagined and verified. And he was all alone to face this challenge.

What was the clearest in his mind was the following astronomical experimental fact: stars were capable of extracting 90% of their kinetic energy from this isotropic quantified natural flux. And if stars were able to do it, then it’s fair to say that a technology that is more advanced than our own could have done it too, and this would theoretically enable it to reach interstellar travel.

He went on to get involved in the progressive elaboration of a theoretical model based on hypotheses that are consistent with observations.

This was a theoretical elaboration sowed with multiple pitfalls, because the model did not follow a series of acceptable hypotheses within the framework of known physics.

Indeed, in order to be able to extract kinetic energy from the natural flux that he had imagined, it was necessary for the behavior of the energy particles, which this energy flux should be composed of, to have a very particular behavior with respect to ordinary matter.

On the one hand, it was necessary for this flux to carry a tremendous amount of energy, and on the other hand it had to be unnoticeable, since it had never been detected prior. For him, this meant that there was a need to imagine a new type of fundamental interaction between the particles of energy (Universons) and the elementary particles of matter. It was a matter of discovering a particular type of quantum interaction.

The gravitational quanta contained in this flux could not in fact collide with the particles of matter and yield their momentum as is the case when two billiard balls collide. Moreover, the Laws of celestial mechanics were very clear on this issue. Any notion about collision systematically failed.

And yet the flux must have been able to yield extraordinary amounts of motion to the stars’ matter or to that of the UFOs!

Then came the transition to experimental verification.

Experimental realizations:

Claude Poher succeeded in creating a ceramic material that, when kept at very low temperatures such as liquid nitrogen and then submitted to a very high current at high voltage (current of 1000 Amps and 1000 V) accelerated the electrons within it and thus produced a flux of Universons. He would rightfully call it a Universons’ transmitter.

These Universons have been used to show:

* the acceleration of matter in the flux of Universons regardless of the masking effect and the number of elements stacked up in the flux of Universons itself, which showed that Universons do indeed go through matter over great distances without a problem and really generates a movement within it. Matter was accelerated to amazing levels (several hundreds or thousands of g force). Fortunately, the acceleration only lasts a short time, yet over two microseconds it can generate a force equivalent to several hundred grams, even exceeding a kilogram.

Evidence of his theory:

Other than the experiments that unequivocally validate his theory, as an astrophysicist, Claude Poher has shown that his theory solves a lot of the astronomical mysteries that we know of today:

* the slowing down of the Pioneer probes once they exit our solar system,

* the missing mass of the universe, which is non-existent (what’s truly missing from our theory are the Universons),

* The unexplained acceleration of pieces of spiral galaxies according to their distance in the center,

* and many other points, which I did not address.

Poher created the GEPAN when he was working at CNES, and it’s because he developed an interest in the propulsion system of UFOs that he worked on his anti-gravity theory.

He also goes over the many known phenomena caused by UFOs — car breakdowns, paralyzing effect on people, sudden acceleration of UFOs, and how the Universons’ technology simply allows the nullification of inertia on board a spaceship moving with the flux of Universons, etc…

But another strange enigma remains for which we have no answer today: Our Extraterrestrial visitors challenge the General Theory of Relativity!

Astronomers assert that the star nearest to the sun (proxima in the Centaurus constellation) is 4.24 light-years. Thus our visitors come from very, very, far and manage to return within the time frame compatible with their life expectancy.

In the second Message, Rael gives a summary of the contact he had on October 7, 1975, and describes his 24-hour journey on the planet of the Eternals. A journey he estimates to have lasted less than an hour… Since this planet cannot be located in our solar system, we have here a confirmation that their traveling speed is very different from everything we know, including the speed of light.

The General Theory of Relativity in its current interpretation is thus being challenged!!!If this theory proved to be true, the relativistic constraints of the contraction of time would make communication impossible (several years at a speed close to that of light would correspond to several centuries on earth)

Exotic assumptions can be proposed. We can imagine that there is no material displacement but only transfer of information. The genetic code and memory bank of individuals could be transferred and then reconstituted at destination?

But the transport of the information should still circulate thousands of times faster than the speed of light. This topic is so far ahead from what we know and the only indisputable conclusion we can come up with is that we just don’t know!!!

The presence, for thousands of years, of extraterrestrial ships flying in our proximity must incite us to change our paradigms. Yes, they are out there and it’s not a matter of believing, but more about having a minimum amount of common sense to understand…

Their inconspicuous but permanent presence is also a key element that confirms the Raelian Messages given both in 1973 and 1975 to the one these visitors named Raël. Many have not yet taken the time to try to understand...The diffused energetic environment and the anti-gravitation techniques will soon be available to us, but the best goes alongside with the worst. This undertaking can lead to the development and well-being of humanity, but it can also accelerate its destruction. Individuals without a conscience having access to an omnipresent and inexhaustible source of energy can build weapons capable of destroying all of humanity.

FGM, also called genital cutting, affects 130 million women in the world today according to the WHO.

“This gruesome practice consists of mutilating the genitals of little girls, particularly the clitoris,” Gary said. “It’s usually performed without anesthesia, and it’s done to deny sexual pleasure. The intent is to turn women into chaste, subdued and faithful wives.”

But husbands don't like having an FGM wife, Gary pointed out.

“Thousands of victims reach out to Clitoraid, begging us to make them whole again and save their marriages,” she said.

During the past two decades, science has significantly updated anatomical knowledge of women's genitalia.

“For the first time in history, the clitoris has been properly mapped, revealing an organ far more voluminous than previously thought,” Gary explained. “Its visible glans is only the tip of a massive amount of pleasurable tissue. That makes genital mutilation a reversible condition, and French urologist Dr. Pierre Foldes launched a revolutionary surgical technique for FGM survivors.”

Clitoral restorative surgery requires post-op therapy, Gary said.

"The touchless technology of the Womanizer vibrator will help our patients recover pleasurable sensations without irritating the clitoral tissue the way other vibrators tend to do after surgery,” she said. “And Michael Linke says he will modify the technology of his vibrator and adapt it to our patients' needs after getting their feedback."

Clitoraid is planning a humanitarian surgical mission to Kenya in May.

On August 11, 2016, you sent me a letter thanking me for offering my services as a trial juror. Since I wasn't selected to sit as a juror, you stated that my services may be required at some point in the future. You also praised the trial jury system as one of the cornerstones of our American justice system.

As a Raelian (see www.rael.org for more information), I am an atheist, and I was highly offended by your swearing in all the potential jurors with a religious reference that was included at the end of the oath. Hence my objection at the time. Considering that we have separation of church and state in this country, religion has no place in the courtroom.

Historically, the initial oath required of potential jurors had absolutely no religious reference. The “so help me, God” phrase was added during the McCarthy era, a rather dark time in U.S. history. I would hope that you and all other American judges would like to renounce the regressive modification to the oath that took place during that period.

According to recent news reports, you asked an attorney in your courtroom to remove a “Black Lives Matter” pin. You said you didn't allow for political speech in your courtroom. Why then do you allow religious speech to take place in your courtroom? Isn’t that a double standard?

Nevada courts should immediately adopt a default oath that contains no religious references. Such an oath is appropriate and desirable because it would be inclusive for all citizens of the state of Nevada, including atheists and members of other non-monotheistic creeds (meaning all creeds other than Christianity, Islam and Judaism).

Stating that those who don’t want to recite the “so help me, God” phrase can request a separate oath that omits it means singling those people out publicly in front of their peers. The phrase refers to something that doesn’t affect juristic capacity, but calling public attention to those who wish to omit can clearly lead to bias against them. Would you ask potential jurors to publicly state their race or sexual orientation?

I count on you as a representative of the judicial system to ensure that religion no longer has a place in your courtroom. While government should protect freedom of religion, in itself it should be totally free from religion.

Sincerely,Thomas Kaenzig]]>North AmericaElianeWMon, 17 Oct 2016 04:25:30 +0000http://raelianews.org/courtroom-god-not-allowed.htmlAnyone for golf?http://raelianews.org/anyone-for-golf.html
Liam Fox, the British Secretary of State for International Trade, just suggested British executives preferred to play golf on Friday afternoons instead of business and that Britain was getting too fat and lazy as a nation, as if this was something undesirable.

What is wrong with them playing golf on Friday afternoons, why don’t we all play golf on Friday afternoons? Why not whenever we want? In fact the more golf we play, the less fat we will get!

And for the first time in history, it is finally possible. It would be very easy to create an economy today where everything is free if we simply designed machines to do all the hard work, liberating humans once and for all, from labour. In fact it is already happening and many people are afraid of robots taking over their jobs. Well why not? Why not have all the jobs done by robots, with the latest biotechnology they would be better at it than humans anyway, and all the product from this automation, including food, clothing, shelter, medicine, luxury good, could be provided for free for everyone if we organised it that way.

The trick is to organise it that way, and that is the aim of paradism.org Visit this webiste, the brainchild of Rael, founder of the International Raelian Movement.

If everything was free, then we would no longer need money, so all production would be for the benefit of human beings rather than for profit. And from that point, education would be all about developing creativity to enjoy this bountiful leisure society, so that music, art, science, design, etc would all be done for the pleasure of giving rather than selling ourselves for survival.

And that would move us out from the category of prostitution into that of enjoyment. And if we no longer needed to wake up each morning to sell our minds and bodies for a living, then we would be free to do what we wish with our time, including playing golf on Friday afternoons.

Marcus Wenner, PhDRaelian Guide in the UK]]>EuropeElianeWMon, 12 Sep 2016 06:35:58 +0000http://raelianews.org/anyone-for-golf.htmlGotopless, a much needed cultural revolutionhttp://raelianews.org/gotopless-a-much-needed-cultural-revolution.html
Thousands were in the streets worldwide on Sunday August 28 to request equal rights for all to be topless. The actions started 8 years ago with a few Raelian girls on Venice beach who stood their ground for a few hours, topless, defying hundreds of men taking pictures, policemen not sure what to do with the situation, Christian protesters claiming they would go to hell. Already at the time, a few women decided spontaneously to join. They are now thousands around the world, organizing similar protests in large and small cities, making it a time to claim their equal rights and to celebrate their femininity without shame or taboos.

“ By changing little things, especially little things linked to culture, we change the world. The world is sick, wars, violence poverty, starvation; all of that because of men, because men have been ruling the world for so long. They have been also using a tool for their power which is the monotheistic religions. Monotheistic religions are all sexist. Jewish, Christian or Muslim religions are all against women. Everyone talks about Muslim girls having to hide their face behind a burka. The Christians and the Jews are however doing the same.

For those who really follow their religious books, men are superior and women are inferior. If a man has sex without being married, he will face a small punishment, meanwhile a woman can be stoned publicly to death. This is what monotheistic religions can do, all of them, written by men to give more power to men and no power to women.

To change the world, we need to give power to the women. Women are much more peaceful than men. They give birth, they raise children. They know how precious life is. They don’t have this testosterone drive that push men to fight and compete. If lead by women, the world would be much more peaceful. So let’s start by giving the same right to women and men in every field.

Like the great Mao Tse Tung said “ There is no real revolution without a cultural revolution”. Without cultural revolution, you have no revolution. Mao destroyed every trace of Western culture in China because there was no reason for China to have a Western culture. The Chinese culture was much higher than the Western culture but they had been colonized and were victims of this primitive Western culture. Mao realized that and destroyed every trace of Western culture in China.

In the world we have traces of the Judeo-Christian or monotheistic cultures, traces like the superiority of men over women which dictates that men can go topless but women cannot. No power for women. Politicians can claim equal rights for men and women, but in reality they support a law preventing women to go topless… hypocrisy in essence.

That is why it is important to fight for the right to be topless. All women who want no discrimination against their gender, who want to have the same power as men, need to promote the right to go topless. Not as a shy little wish, but as an act of revolution. It shouldn't be ‘I go topless because it is my right’ but rather ‘ I go topless because I want to change the world’.

That is why Gotopless is important. By having the same right as men, we change the world. By defending the right to go topless for women, we are fighting wars, we are fighting poverty, we are fighting child starvation, we are changing the world. It isn’t by changing big things that we make a revolution, but by changing every day’s details. If men can go everywhere, on the beaches, topless, women can do the same. Look at the men in the eyes and tell him ‘I have the same right as you and nobody will stop me’

A peaceful future for earth is a future lead by women.

Go topless! as well as men! as well as Maitreya!]]>North AmericaElianeWTue, 06 Sep 2016 08:20:55 +0000http://raelianews.org/gotopless-a-much-needed-cultural-revolution.htmlAnother world is possiblehttp://raelianews.org/another-world-is-possible.html

"Since its founding, the Raelian Movement (www.rael.org) offers practical solutions to the problems faced by our humanity and the WSF represented a great platform for presenting solutions with the campaigns Paradism, No More Armies and 1min4peace (See links below)", explained André Julien, coordinator of this project.

Stephane Salois, 1min4peace person in charge for Canada, continued: "Just before participating to the WSF opening march on Tuesday, August 9, in the middle of a monster rally at Lafontaine Park, we invited participants to an initiation to meditation, making them realize that this simple action could have very tangible repercussions for building world peace."

The motto of the WSF "Another world is possible" might as well be that of the Raelians who joined the thousands of participants, with their banners very well in sight during a peaceful march through downtown Montreal streets.

During the WSF, a conference for each of the themes was held, namely: a conference on Paradism at UQAM, another on 1min4peace at McGill University and a last one on No More Armies at the Monument National building.

For the duration of the WSF, No More Armies held a booth at UQAM. The team invited people to sign a petition for non-complicity to wars, so that Canadian taxes are no longer invested in the military industry. Nearly 300 people have signed the petition.

Raelians have always been at the forefront of social change and their presence at the WSF has shown once again their determination to use every opportunity to raise awareness and encourage people to take concrete action, because if "another world is possible" it will only be through the involvement of all!

www.nomorearmies.org]]>North AmericaElianeWSat, 03 Sep 2016 18:15:08 +0000http://raelianews.org/another-world-is-possible.htmlIndependence Day: Why so much hate?http://raelianews.org/independence-day-why-so-much-hate.html
Raelians have organized worldwide protests against the anti-ETs rhetoric displayed in the movie ‘Independence Day the Resurgence’ by Rolland Emmerich during which they kindly handled flyers to bring awareness that an Extra-terrestrial civilization is willing to peacefully meet with us, has been asking for it repeatedly for more than 40 years and only had mockery and denial in return.“The exact same communication as released 20 years ago when the first movie Independence Day was released would be accurate today since, unfortunately, the core issue hasn’t fundamentally changed” explains David Uzal, Raelian Guide, who launched the protest in New York City back then. “

Rael, the founder of the International Movement, has repeatedly warned us that there is a 99.5 % chance humankind will destroy itself, and aliens will have nothing to do with it! (see www.elohimleaks.org). On the contrary they may be doing the necessary to avoid this to happen, since, as he informed us, they created all forms of life on Earth. Note that UFO sightings over areas with dangerous nuclear activity (Nevada, Chernobyl, and Fukushima) indicate extra-terrestrials may have been preventing, more than once, ultimate catastrophes. We can assume that the Elohim, the name in ancient Hebrew given to the alien Creators as found in the Bible, may have prevented irreversible destruction since the atomic energy has been first used. With the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, on August 6th, humankind entered a new era which makes possible its total destruction. [Raelians calendar starts on that date].“It is quite irresponsible to pretend now that destruction would come from out of space” comments David. “We may very well do so before we turn into a dangerous interplanetary civilization.

This could be considered as the immune system of the Universe as Rael points out: “once you have the technology to travel in space you are also capable of destroying all life on your own planet, so, if peace, brotherhood, love, compassion, thus femininity don’t prevail, the self-destruction will take place, and that is a principle which keep the inhabited universe in peace.”He added :“We tend to project to others what we ourselves do. America’s founders destroyed the populations of their welcoming land, brought slaves and now Americans keep trying to subdue the rest of the world under its endless imperial ambitions. It is understandable that such a national culture would try to justify its warlike and violent ethos by transposing it to others, as it has increasingly been doing so since it became a “big power”. Movies like Independence Day participate to a type of first level and obvious propaganda aimed, in one hand, to divert its own wrong doings on others, and in the other hand, to legitimate the predator attitude as being the natural one all over the Universe. But in fact the rule is the other way around: only the kind civilizations survive in the infinity of space!”]]>WorldadminThu, 28 Jul 2016 10:05:06 +0000http://raelianews.org/independence-day-why-so-much-hate.htmlBackToKama wants Juneteenth as a National U.S. holiday & encourages African-Americans' investment in Kama/Africa.http://raelianews.org/for-the-151st-juneteenth-the-back-to-kama-organization-supports-a-campaign-for-juneteenth.html
PHOENIX, July 15 – According to a statement released today, Back to Kama Organization continue to support a campaign for Juneteenth to become a national holiday throughout the nation. Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.Juneteenth celebrations are also held in other countries around the world because of the presence of a strong African Diaspora in Honduras, Trinidad, Tobago, Japan, Taiwan, England, and France. In the US, members of the BTK organization celebrated the 151st anniversary of Juneteenth on July 19, 2016, in Phoenix, Ariz and Houston, Texas.

“We encourage all our friends and followers on social media to continue showing their support for this very special celebration of freedom, during the Juneteenth celebration in July and throughout the years,” said Kelvin Green, spokesperson for Back to Kama [See: https://www.facebook.com/BackToKama.org].

He explained that “Back to Kama” is a voluntary migration campaign to encourage well-educated, successful and affluent people of all races and religions – but particularly those who are descendants of slaves – to voluntarily transfer to Kama the knowledge and wealth they have rightfully accumulated in the Americas and relocate their businesses and operations to Kama." He also added that Kama is the original name for Africa used by its indigenous people.

It was in April 2009 that Rael the spiritual leader of the International Raelian Movement initiated the Back to Kama project as the best solution for peace and social equality in the Americas and worldwide. According to Rael, the BTK plan would not only solve the economic crisis faced by most Kama nations, but it can serve as “the most comprehensive proposal ever for addressing and solving the issue of reparations for the African slave trade and exploitative colonization, neither of which has been recognized as a crime against humanity.”

Today, in 2016, in face of the racial tension due to police brutality against black males in the US, the BTK initiative is emerging as one of the best win-win solution for African-Americans to establish businesses in Kama and to move their operations to specialized Free Trade Zones existing in various countries on the continent. They will be respected and appreciated in those environments. “Let’s embrace this opportunity to stand together during and after this 151st Juneteenth week to celebrate freedom and the advancement of all human beings on planet Earth,” Green concluded.

]]>AfricaadminMon, 18 Jul 2016 19:35:53 +0000http://raelianews.org/for-the-151st-juneteenth-the-back-to-kama-organization-supports-a-campaign-for-juneteenth.htmlElohimleak #8: The 60 richest people on Earth are now secretly building an underground complex ...http://raelianews.org/elohimleak-8-the-60-richest-people-on-earth-are-now-secretly-building-an-underground.html
'They are still watching everything that happens on Earth' explains Rael. 'No so-called “top secret” information is secret from them, and there is nothing any individual, group or government body can do to change that.'

Rael receives regular new messages from the Elohim about disturbing developments in our planet’s most secret government services. You may see all 8 messages on elohimleaks.org. Click on ElohimLeaks

Here is the content of the latest one received on July 7:

The 60 richest people on Earth are now secretly building an underground complex that can withstand any nuclear, chemical or biological world war or world revolution. This complex will have room for the 60 richest people and their families for a total of 480 people; plus 240 top scientists, especially geneticists and agronomists; 60 medical people representing all the specialties; 120 military commandos to keep order and protect the complex from any force trying to enter it (plus batteries of remotely controlled missiles and drones); and 60 of the most beautiful young women to repopulate the earth after the cataclysm ends and the atmosphere is clean again.

The total population will be around 1,440 people. Using the latest technologies developed by NASA to create the first colonies on the moon or Mars, the complex will have the entire infrastructure needed to feed this population indefinitely.

The location is of course top secret; even the people who will be accepted in this complex will never know the precise location until they arrive there safely. There is a strong suspicion that it may be hidden behind, connected to, or close to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault financed by Bill Gates, the Rockefeller family, Monsanto and others.

It’s a top priority for peace lovers to find and destroy such a place to prevent any escape for these 60 people. They are the 0.000001% who own the planet, and they will want it for themselves after financing a world war that would destroy the rest of humanity. If they have no place to escape to, they will stop financing the next nuclear world war.]]>WorldElianeWSat, 09 Jul 2016 06:10:34 +0000http://raelianews.org/elohimleak-8-the-60-richest-people-on-earth-are-now-secretly-building-an-underground.htmlStrong emotions for the Swastika Rehabilitation Day in Canadahttp://raelianews.org/strong-emotions-for-the-swastika-rehabilitation-day-in-canada.html
On June 26, for a beautiful summer day, the Raelians were many to participate in the Swastika Rehabilitation Day across Canada.

In the four cities where they expressed their pleasure to share the true meaning and origin of the millennium symbol of our Creators.

The Swastika Rehabilitation Day was also a success in terms of communication on social media and with the Canadian religious associations who are also using the swastika.

Closing the event on Tuesday evening, June 28, Nicole Bertrand, Raelian Guide, was the guest speaker of a public online conference, a first! This conference brilliantly summarized the importance of this religious symbol everywhere on earth, including many references and images.

Since most Westerners are only making a link between the swastika and its usurpation by the Nazis, just a few decades ago, our action raised a whole range of emotions from the public, from astonishment to incredulity and sometimes even verbal aggression. All this underlines the need to annually hold this public event, the only way to dissociate the meaning of this symbol of peace and good fortune from the Nazi imposture. It is now time to stop giving so much credit to this criminal organization and through our action, more and more people become aware of this.

Faced with such reactions, the Raelians will gather again next year to continue the awareness campaign for the rehabilitation of the Swastika symbol.proswastika.org

]]>North AmericaadminThu, 30 Jun 2016 06:25:30 +0000http://raelianews.org/strong-emotions-for-the-swastika-rehabilitation-day-in-canada.htmlSwastika Day: no ban, more educationhttp://raelianews.org/swastika-day-no-ban-more-education.html
For more than 5 years now Raelians have teamed up with Buddhists and Jainists to remind the public that the swastika is not a symbol of hate but rather a symbol of peace. On June 25, hundreds gathered in different cities worldwide including in Tel Aviv, to rehabilitate the oldest religious symbol that is the swastika ( see proswastika.org).

A Long Island senator tried to bar us; when reminded of the first amendment, he declared that they were limits to this amendment. There can't be limits to our religious freedom Mr Kaminsky.

Here after a letter sent by Thomas Kaenzig, Raelian Guide and leader of the ProSwastika alliance in answer to an article referring to Mr Kalinsky derogatory attempts :

Regarding the proposed legislation of State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (“Battling a symbol of hate,” June 9-15), it would be an unacceptable infringement on freedom of speech and freedom of religion, both being protected by the constitution.

There are millions of people in the U.S. for whom the swastika is a sacred symbol. Not just for Raelians, for whom it represents infinity in time, but also for Hindus, Buddhists and Jains. Banning the display of a religious symbol is like banning a religion, an affront not only to the members of that religion but to a free and open society in general.

While our sympathies, of course, go out to those who suffered under the horrors of the Nazi regime, we should not forget that the Nazis abused a symbol that had existed for thousands of years and had only positive connotations throughout the world, meaning good luck and well-being, among other things.

By still associating the swastika with the Nazi regime, one only gives credit to them for it, probably the last thing the descendants of those who were murdered by the Nazis would want.

Would this state senator also dare to pass legislation that would ban the display of the Christian cross because of the tens of millions murdered under this symbol in the Americas, Africa and Europe for centuries, or because of the horrible crimes committed through the years under this symbol by the Ku Klux Klan?

Last but not least, it’s important to remind people that the swastika has been a Jewish symbol, too, for a very long time, and can actually be found on various synagogues, like one in Verona, Italy, as well as in many sites around Israel, including the Second Temple, one of the holiest sites for the Jewish people.

Nobody in Israel has requested that those symbols be removed. Why would the public display of swastikas be even more of an issue in New York?As always, education is the solution, not banning. That’s what Swastika Rehabilitation Day, June 25, is about.

Thomas KaenzigRaelian guide and president of the ProSwastika Alliance

]]>North AmericaElianeWTue, 28 Jun 2016 10:55:56 +0000http://raelianews.org/swastika-day-no-ban-more-education.htmlElohimization : 130 scientists and officials meet to discuss the creation of genomes from scratchhttp://raelianews.org/elohimization-130-scientists-and-officials-meet-to-discuss-the-creation-of-genomes-from-scratch.html
Last week’s meeting at Harvard of more than 130 scientists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and government officials, from five continents, to discuss the topic of creating genomes from scratch is probably the most important ‘Raelian news’ of the month.When Maitreya Rael, founder and spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, introduced in 1973 the idea that every form of life on earth has been engineered by scientists who created these unique genomes from scratch, most of the scientists dismissed his claim as science fiction. 43 years later, scientists, business individuals and government officials agree to meet and debate about its feasibility, including for the creation of human genomes.

They are not debating about the possibility that our own genome has been engineered from scratch yet, but it should be on everyone’s mind. If we can envision to create a genome from scratch, it should be natural to think that our own genome could have been engineered as well. By whom would be the next question and the obvious answer will be: ‘ by advanced scientists’.

“Where would they come from?” is the next natural question…43 years ago, scientists were saying that there are millions of stars in the Milky Way but there are no planets. The existence of planets was a mere speculation and no scientist caring for their career would dare to defend the possibility of an infinity of star systems similar to the solar system. 43 years ago, most scientists believed that our existence was the results of billions of positive mutations that lead to our extraordinarily complex ecosystem and the odds to find another such luckily elaborate ecosystem was even slimmer than having one on Earth. The official scientific dogma was that we were probably the only living human beings in the galaxy and probably in the ‘expanding and limited universe’, a very egocentric vision similar to the ones that made us believe in the past that the sun was rotating around the earth. The first planet outside of our solar system was reported in 1997. In 2014, there was an official count of 1,700 planets detected in our galaxy. A few days ago, the Kepler mission reported about 1,284 more planets and Nasa now counts 21 exoplanets that are labelled as ‘habitable’. Stars are not observed as stars only anymore, they are looked at as potential ‘planetary systems’ with potentially habitable planets. The number of scientists who think that habitable could also mean inhabited is growing. There are also a growing number of them who postulate that the universe might be infinite and that the event that is referred to as the Big Bang is actually a local event in an infinite universe where big bangs and new clusters of galaxies are created every day, every second, an infinite number of times. But that is digressing.

The possibility that human beings coming from another planets created us is not science fiction anymore. It is scientifically acceptable to think that life exists in other planets and that some of these living entities are able to design new DNAs and create other forms of lives.

These scientists probably had meetings with entrepreneurs, ethicists, government officials before they created new simple forms of life. Their creations became more elaborate, the ethicists became more alarmed until they decided to have the laboratories transferred in one of the ‘habitable exoplanets’ that they had discovered. They had fun creating diversity in beauty and functions which naturally led them to create another human being in their image.This account of our past is coherent with the multiple reports of the creation of life on every continent by ‘gods’ who were actually only advanced scientists. The concept of a unique god creator is fairly recent and even the Bible uses a plural term ( Elohim) to refer to the one(s) who created life.It also explains why all forms of life possess identical pieces in their DNAs as the DNA code is a creating language and the same language was used for all forms of life on earth. Our scientists may elect to use a DNA code that use different bases for their future creation. In doing so, they will use existing pieces of their previous creations and include them in the new ones, not reinventing each time the pieces of codes that they know will bring specific functions. This is how the same pieces of DNA can be found in the apes and in the human being. It doesn’t mean that the apes evolved and experienced millions of mutations until they became an homo sapiens. It is much easier to imagine scientists designing the apes and later designing the human beings, using their accumulated knowledge to improve their creation. The missing links in the evolution theory will always be missed because they were simply not needed.

Life on earth is what we can really call an intelligent design and the designers are the Elohim of the Bible, a civilization that wishes to be welcomed back on Earth.Our scientists are becoming creators, they are becoming like the Elohim… as Maitreya Rael said when he read about the meeting of scientists and officials at Harvard: “Here is the beginning of the Elohimization”.

One of the tenets of the Raelian philosophy is that life has always existed and will always exist in an infinite universe. In the infinite cycle of life, a meeting of 130 individuals at Harvard was a milestone in the inevitable path where the created become creators. They will succeed, provided that a few of their colleagues do not take decisions that will lead to our destruction before. But that’s also another story.]]>ScienceElianeWWed, 18 May 2016 09:30:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/elohimization-130-scientists-and-officials-meet-to-discuss-the-creation-of-genomes-from-scratch.htmlRaelian Celebration of the creation of life and of its diversityhttp://raelianews.org/raelian-celebration-of-the-creation-of-life-and-of-its-diversity.html
The first Sunday of April is one of the main four celebrations organized by the Raelian Movement throughout the year. It is the day chosen to commemorate the scientific creation of life by the extraterrestrial civilization that designed us and all forms of life on earth , lived with their creation for a while and then went back to ' the Stars' as reported by our ancestors with their limited understanding of the time.

On this year 70 aH celebration, Maitreya Rael was in Okinawa and addressed the Raelians who were gathered there to celebrate with him.

Rael explained that this celebration of the creation is also a celebration of diversity. " When the Elohim ( the extraterrestrial civilization that created us), came on earth, they wanted to recreate the 7 races they also had on their planet at the beginning - when they were created themselves. That's why they created the black people first, the yellow, red skin people, all the different races that exist now. It isn't by accident that they did it, as, as long as we are racists, we cannot progress. As long as we are racists, our genetic code will become weaker and weaker. By loving each other, whatever the color of the skin, having children together of mixed skin colors, we increase the beauty and the quality of our DNA."

" One day when we also create life on another planet, we will do the same. We will probably create people with different colors of skin ; not only for beauty but to force them to have love and respect for each other in order to be more and more beautiful, more and more intelligent and to progress in a peaceful way in order to deserve to reach interplanetary civilization."

" In the infinity of the Universe there are very different forms of life. The training to love different human beings, to love differences, different shapes of eyes, different colors of skin, is a training for us in order to welcome beings that are not looking like human beings. It is a training to help us welcome any form of life. Right now, a lot of extraterrestrial people are watching us. They would love to come, to visit us, but they look at us killing each other because of the color of our skin and they stay away. The earth is a no fly zone."

"It is the responsibility of the Raelians, it is part of the mission given to us by the Elohim, to prepare humanity to welcome people who are very different, with love and respect, as all the extraterrestrials who can travel to earth are peaceful, full of love."]]>WorldadminWed, 06 Apr 2016 09:30:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/raelian-celebration-of-the-creation-of-life-and-of-its-diversity.htmlActor Activist Stephen Fry Honorary Guide for Humanityhttp://raelianews.org/actor-activist-stephen-fry-honorary-guide-for-humanity.html
Rael has awarded the rare title of Honorary Guide for Humanity to the English actor, writer and activist Stephen John Fry.

Fry is an atheist, a humanist and likes the ancient Greek belief in multiple gods. This could describe any Raelian as Raelians are strictly atheist and do not believe that we have been created by an almighty god, but understand that the ancient report of human-like gods by our Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Mayan, Indian, Slavic, Norse, Dogon, Australian aboriginal… ancestors, are actually describing the same advanced human beings who created life on earth, lived with their creation for a while and then left to go back to the stars.

But the belief in ancient gods is not what makes an Honorary Guide. Honorary Guides are activists, individuals who devote their life to denounce any injustice, any disrespect of differences and any crime against humanity, despite the uncomfortable position they face in doing so.

Fry has repeatedly expressed opposition to organized religion and warned on how "the cruel, hypocritical and loveless hand of religion and absolutism has fallen on the world once more." In 2009, he participated in an “Intelligence Squared’ debate where he argued that the Catholic Church did more harm than good.

For the past 40 years, Rael has repeatedly denounced the crimes of the Catholic Church. He initiated the association Nopedo ( nopedo.org) to help denounce pedophilia in the Catholic clergy and give hope to their victims, before their crimes become mainstream news. He denounced their criminal acts in Africa and initiated large apostasy campaigns to help Africans go back to their roots and forget about the imposed taboos of the catholic colons. He encouraged all the individuals discriminated against by the Catholic church to stop supporting them and leave without fear.

Talking about Pope John Paul II in 2005, he said : “The criminal Catholic Church’s leader dares to compare the tentative of genocide against a minority carefully premeditated by the nazis with the individual choice of women of all races who just use their individual freedom to decide when or if they want or not to have a child. In other words the pope says that every woman deciding to have abortion is like a little Hitler. How can catholic women stay catholic and not apostasy (debaptize themselves) from the catholic church after such a statement?”

Rael encouraged also all LGBT members to have their difference respected and leave the Catholic Church.

Fry’s refined but strong stance against the Catholic Church commends respect and it is with great pleasure that we are adding him to the list of the more than 80 non-Raelian individuals who have been awarded the title of Honorary Guide for Humanity.

]]>EuropeadminMon, 14 Mar 2016 11:50:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/actor-activist-stephen-fry-honorary-guide-for-humanity.htmlA peaceful vigil in support of indigenous womenhttp://raelianews.org/a-peaceful-vigil-in-support-of-indigenous-women.html
November 25 was designated the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women", as proclaimed by the UN in 1999. Each year, governments, international organizations and NGOs are invited to organize activities to raise public awareness. The Raelians in Canada joined this mobilization following the recent events of violence and discrimination that occurred at the expense of indigenous women of Val d'Or, in Quebec (Canada).

In the middle of an enchanting scenery on Phillips Square downtown Montreal, under a pleasant temperature, around fifty people answered the call last Wednesday night.

Rodolf Samson, organizer and spokesperson for the Raelian values towards Aboriginal communities addressed the group: "There is a comeback of the First Nations people in a move to defend their rights. Aboriginal people are at the same level as Canadians in all respects as they are part of the solution in the sense that they have much to teach us in terms of values of respect for themselves, for life, for nature."

A meditation for peace was guided by O'rev Rhodet emphasizing on the great responsibility everyone has in giving and spreading love to close and distant people. "Through positive thinking and meditation, please take time to send your love to those who suffer and experience war, disease, injustice and violence. The power of our meditation crosses borders and spreads the good in everyone's mind... " said O'rev in the opening of this meditation.

In this beautiful and inspiring evening every participant took place in a circle symbolizing unity. In a very solemn atmosphere everyone held a candle to show support and compassion for women victims of violence; and especially First Nations women.

]]>North AmericaadminTue, 29 Dec 2015 16:15:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/a-peaceful-vigil-in-support-of-indigenous-women.htmlGotopless Canadahttp://raelianews.org/gotopless-canada.html
Under the sign of gender equality was held the 8th edition of this international event during which women organize topless protests around the world to claim the right to be topless in public where it is permitted for men. “In Canada, a few hundred women, in five cities, demonstrated topless on Sunday 23 August, in Vancouver, Penticton, Saskatoon, Toronto and Montreal”, reports the GoTopless-Canada organizer, Sylvie Chabot.

Photo: Steve Pasqualotto, CBC.caIt was a first in Saskatoon, where a group of people ended up topless on River Side beach for the sole purpose of exercising their right.The demonstration in Penticton, British Columbia, had to be cancelled due to large forest fires in the Okanagan Valley, raising a great risk of poisoning for participants, said Gail Owen who was on hand to answer many journalists who attended.

Photo: Jack Boland, Toronto SunIn Toronto, two different groups have held two activities.A march was first organized downtown Toronto where about twenty people firmly claimed the right for women to exercise their freedom.Meanwhile, in a different part of town, another small group of topless men and women went cycling along the Lakeshore in a pretty relaxed atmosphere.

As every year, in Vancouver, a march took place downtown, followed by a speech given by Denise Belisle, the organizer.

Finally in Montreal, more than a hundred men and women went topless for those who wanted it, enjoying a beautiful sunny day at the foot of Mount Royal, under the sound of "tamtams".Everywhere the claim is the same: “Wherever men can be topless in public, women should have the same right, or else men should also cover their chest.”While in Ontario, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, this right is legally recognized, it is not necessarily accepted to see topless women walking on beaches or in parks. Regularly, women are harassed, humiliated or even arrested for enjoying the beautiful summer days topless, hence the need to continue our events and our demands, not just one day a year, but all the time.

Photo: Marie-Christine Trottier, Journal 24 Heures“If we want to create a world of peace, such violence should stop, we need to leave women alone and let them sunbath topless when they wish to do so”, concluded Sylvie Chabot.See you next year! gotopless.org

]]>North AmericaadminTue, 22 Sep 2015 08:50:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/gotopless-canada.htmlMessage of the Elohim on the 6th of August 70AH to the Jewish peoplehttp://raelianews.org/message-of-the-elohim-on-the-6th-of-august-70ah-to-the-jewish-people.html
I Yahweh, through the mouth of my son and Prophet Rael, am addressing this message to the Jewish People.

You have betrayed all the exemplary values of Judaism by stealing the land and houses which don’t belong to you, and especially by not respecting my most important commandment: “Thou shall not kill” and accumulating nuclear weapons capable of killing millions of people in one go and sparking off a world war capable of destroying all of our creation.

Consequently, the protection that had been granted to Israel is from today totally withdrawn and I ask to all the real Jews to leave the Land of Palestine as quickly as possible.

We had provided this protection in the hope that the reason and respect inherent in Judaism, along with the construction of the Embassy, the third Temple of the old writings where we would have returned, would push this state full of promise to allow the Palestinian people to return to their houses and their land in a multi-racial and multi-cultural state as an example to all of Humanity and become a spiritual beacon for the three great monotheistic religions.

Instead, the stiff necked people who had only just escaped the nazi genocide and concentration camps, stiffened yet more, they treated our last Prophet and his request for the Embassy with contempt, they created concentration camps for the Palestinians whose homes and Lands they stole, they bombed the concentration camp which is Gaza and are even projecting a final solution with the goal of Palestinian genocide.

Therefore our protection is now ended and the real Jews are again condemned to a new diaspora, to live among the other Nations of Earth while refusing to carry arms for any nation and to benefit every nation with their genius and creativity.

The only true Jews are of course anti-zionist and we congratulate the religious Jews who refused zionism and who have already left Israel.

Raelians are now the true Jews, the only ones who wish to physically construct the Embassy to welcome our return, and not on stolen land. We ask all Jews to leave Israel as soon as possible, to convert to Raelianism, and to support the Palestinians, who are in fact mostly the descendants of real Jews who converted to Islam a very long time ago. To see false Jews coming from Europe massacring the descendants of Jews who lived in Israel from the Biblical times, is a heartrending crime.

Spread around the world to bring the magnificent values of Raelian-Judaism, a Judaism of peace and tolerance, an anti-racist Judaism, a globalist Judaism aiming to unite all the nations within a world government, an anti-militarist Judaism pushing for the immediate and unilateral elimination of weapons of mass destruction, a pro-science Judaism promoting genetics and space exploration and finally a Judaism working especially for the third Temple, our Embassy where we will officially return to reinforce an enduring peace between all people and where all the Great Prophets will return to testify with us to destroy all the myths that the divisive religions have created.

Jew, leave Israel as soon as possible “without turning back” if you don’t wish to be “turned into a pillar of salt” as had happened at Sodom and Gomorrah, and support the predicted Messiah: Rael.

The Elohim have been making themselves known to humanity for thousands of years through crop circles and most recently, an influx of thousands of UFO sightings. They are not invaders and want to be officially welcomed. It's time to acknowledge that and build an embassy to welcome them here officially on behalf of all humanity. The country granting the necessary extraterritoriality and authorization for the embassy to be built within its territory will not only benefit financially but will enjoy the protection of the Elohim. It will become the spiritual and scientific center of the planet for millennia to come and happiness will prevail within its borders.

Some key gatherings took place in Las Vegas, NV and Los Angeles, CA, where Raelians meditated for world peace and reflected on feminine qualities to save humanity. "We were so high in love and peace from the sound of the crystal bowl that we used on this day," said Claude from Las Vegas; regional Guide for the western US.

Following is an excerpt of Rael's teachings on femininity: "If femininity is a remedy for mankind and is the way to prevent its destruction, then to develop it becomes a necessity and the responsibility of each human being regardless of his or her gender."

]]>North AmericaElianeWFri, 27 Mar 2015 10:35:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/feminity-day.htmlRaelians applaud court decision allowing depiction of the devilhttp://raelianews.org/raelians-applaud-court-decision-allowing-depiction-of-the-devil.html
As Raelians, we believe that the court decision is great since there is no reason to accept statues and monuments honoring an imaginary god while not accepting monuments honoring their imaginary devil either. It is easy to see throughout history that one man's God is another man's Devil. We Raelians just deny the existence of one more God than monotheistic believers do.

Surely other atheist organizations are also celebrating this court decision as well and while Raelians are atheists, they do not fit into the typical atheist group since they believe life on Earth was created by an advanced race of extraterrestrials known as the Elohim in the Bible - as opposed to believing that evolution is the only alternative to "Theistic Creationism". Yet while Raelians consider themselves atheists, most atheists don't accept Raelians as atheists since we believe in something which cannot be proven. We would add here that evolution cannot be proven, either. As Raelians, we feel that the two-sided debate of God vs. Evolution is a go nowhere debate and that the idea that all life on Earth was created by an advanced race of extraterrestrials is a third option which makes much more sense than the 150 year old two-sided debate - and we can cite a large amount of evidence to support this claim.

In other words, Raelians are saying that neither God nor the Devil are real. Hang on to your hat here, ok? In 1973, Rael met one of the Elohim face to face. The extraterrestrial introduced himself as Yahweh. (God's name in the Bible) Yahweh told Rael that He (Yahweh) is the president among the Elohim's society, and that Lucifer and Satan are in fact two different members of The Elohim's race. Satan was one of the Elohim who was the leader of the group of Elohim who were against he creation of intelligent life on Earth, and Lucifer was the one who told the first humans on Earth that the Elohim were not gods at all, but simply human beings who were scientifically advanced enough to create life on Earth.

Interesting, don't you think?

And since it's the Christmas season here's one more little tidbit for the reader. Rael was also told by Yahweh that the famous star of Bethlehem was no star, but that it was one of the Elohim's ships (aka UFO) which was guiding the primitives of the time to the location of the Elohim's offspring, Jesus, who was one of many prophets the Elohim sent throughout history in order to found religions and thus guide humanity. Feel free to download Intelligent Design for free and find out more logical explanations for the many Biblical stories you know about.

Regarding the court decision, Raelians are happy that the courts have no choice but to uphold the Constitutional premise which states that one religion should not be favored over another. An increasing number of state courts are granting equal rights to alternative view religions, citing the laws which prohibit favoring one religion over another.

And most of all, we Raelians are not holiday party poopers. We support any peaceful reason to celebrate and wish everyone Happy Saturnalia! The end-of-the-year holidays were originally a pagan festival called Saturnalia. It was Christianized by the pope and we want to restore the ancient name.]]>North AmericaElianeWThu, 18 Dec 2014 09:05:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/raelians-applaud-court-decision-allowing-depiction-of-the-devil.htmlThe Raelian philosophy presented at Ignite Phoenixhttp://raelianews.org/the-raelian-philosophy-presented-at-ignite-phoenix.html
I felt so honored to share a 5 minute presentation about the Raelian philosophy to the people of Phoenix. The audience was gracious and supportive; and all this in a relaxed and fun athmosphere!

By Kelvin Green, leader for Arizona]]>North AmericaElianeWTue, 25 Nov 2014 09:50:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/the-raelian-philosophy-presented-at-ignite-phoenix.htmlThe Canadian Happiness Academy 69aH: an experience of spiritual nourishment!http://raelianews.org/the-canadian-happiness-academy-69ah-an-experience-of-spiritual-nourishment.html
During the past year, the Raelians launched different actions that reflected their philosophy with the goal to change attitudes: Go Topless, Paradism, ProSwastika, Meditating One minute for Peace, and many others. It is essential that those involved in these actions be driven by high values​​ in harmony with the "messenger" and the "message". The Happiness Academy could somehow be seen as a training camp for happiness through the practice of various meditation exercises. This year’s edition was focused on the importance of returning to the basics, because when practicing meditation for several years, one of the biggest challenges for practitioners is not to fall into an "automatic" mode. During this weekend of introspection, beginning by a day of food fasting, the Priest Guides and Bishop Guides of the Raelian Church invited the participants into various workshops developing self-esteem and self-love. Everyone did this inner journey to revisit the three plans that shape human beings: the philosophical plan, the sexual and emotional plan as well as the professional plan.

Each day began by a video where Maitreya Rael conveyed his teachings with delightful humor and an unequivocal precision on the matter. In these videos recorded during a seminar in Taiwan, he was also seen in a preamble, in silence for several minutes, religiously in meditation, to finally speak on the importance of silence in the awakening process; a silence unfortunately often absent from our busy lives.And as the Raelian religion is science, many scientists among the speakers shared their knowledge. Nathalie Salois probes the attendants with the most surprising and recent advances in the understanding of epigenetics. Dr. Marc Rivard spoke several times to demystify some fashions in the field of diet and "alternative" medicine. The planetary leader for teaching in the Raelian philosophy, Daniel Chabot, brilliantly conveyed his understanding of human psychology mentioning, amongst other things, a fascinating study conducted by researchers from the Douglas Hospital about self-esteem.Three days may not be enough to change the world, but in these three busy days at the Canadian Happiness Academy it just may have allowed some participants to return to their hectic daily lives, lightened up by a new flame, and having collected the tools that will enable them to grow and become whom they've always wanted to be.

]]>North AmericaElianeWFri, 24 Oct 2014 09:50:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/the-canadian-happiness-academy-69ah-an-experience-of-spiritual-nourishment.htmlRaelians visit the Montreal Comiccon 2014http://raelianews.org/raelians-visit-the-montreal-comiccon-2014.html
Fortunately, the annual Comiccon Convention allows fans to get closer to the actors who are behind these living legends.

This year I brought along with me a small team of Raelians to hand deliver Rael’s book "Intelligent Design" to various stars we managed to meet in the midst of a very dense crowd of people.

We gave the book to five actors, three of them had played important characters in the Star Trek Next Generation series: Levar Burton (Geordi La Forge), Gates McFadden (Beverly Crusher) and Jonathan Frakes (Will Riker). Rael's book was also gifted to Tricia Helfer, the Cylon No. 6 of "Battlestar Galactica" and Stephen Amell from the "Arrow" series.

Nine of the main actors of the Star Trek Next Generation series have now received a copy of the book "Intelligent Design" including Patrick Stewart, the famous Captain Picard of the spaceship USS Enterprise who received it two years ago.

Superheroes most of the time use raw force to solve problems, but we Raelians believe in the power of Love and Non-Violence.

When we hand deliver Rael's books to influential people we not only convey the truth about our origins but also hope for a better world!

By Alain Moreau]]>North AmericaElianeWMon, 06 Oct 2014 10:30:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/raelians-visit-the-montreal-comiccon-2014.htmlPresentation on Paradism at the University of Torontohttp://raelianews.org/presentation-on-paradism-at-the-university-of-toronto.html
According to Patrick Rhein, the leader of the Raelian Movement for the city of Toronto and also the speaker at the event, it was clear that simply by "looking at the sheer number of questions that were asked, the audience was totally captivated by the concept of Paradism". Two main domains had been addressed, robotics and 3D printing. "We described various applications of biotechnology, from personal use to industrial use as well as how to change our mindset to create a new reality, and save our planet", mentioned Rhein.

Mark Proulx, a robotics engineer with over 20 years experience, has also demonstrated that it would be possible to implement Paradism quickly if politicians, scientists and citizens would join together to achieve it.More presentations of this kind will be held across Canada to show the public how Paradism could make our world a paradise where work and money would no longer exist.]]>North AmericaElianeWMon, 06 Oct 2014 09:50:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/presentation-on-paradism-at-the-university-of-toronto.htmlRaelians celebrate International Peace Day across the UShttp://raelianews.org/raelians-celebrate-international-peace-day-across-the-us.html
In Miami, Raelians joined other peace activists on the beach.

Donna Newman, Guide for the southeastern US, gave a meditation to the group of hundreds of activists forming a peace sign that was photographed by a drone hovering above them.

In Las Vegas, the local team was joined by Chess Grandmaster Timur Gareev (3rd from the right in picture below) who is known worldwide for his simultaneous blindfold chess records.

Peace meditations were held in many other cities throughout the US. Here are pictures from some of those events:

]]>North AmericaElianeWMon, 29 Sep 2014 09:30:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/raelians-celebrate-international-peace-day-across-the-us.htmlInternational Day of Peace in Canada: Let’s meditate one minute for peace!http://raelianews.org/international-day-of-peace-in-canada-lets-meditate-one-minute-for-peace.html
About fifty Raelians from across Quebec rallied for a peaceful march along the busiest street in downtown Montreal.

Peace songs resonated throughout the city during the march, intermixed with moments of meditation directly on the street.

"The event ended with a 'One minute meditation for peace' in a park we previously invited people to by handing out invitation cards", explained Melove, organizer of the march.

"In Toronto we were in High Park to guide a global meditation for peace, synchronized with various other groups like Unify," said Patrick Rhein. In this natural woodland in the middle of the largest city of Canada, Diane Brisebois, a Raelian Guide, conducted a wonderful meditation with images that had a lasting impression on the participants.

A few hours later at the other end of the country the Vancouver team, under the supervision of the provincial leader David Dunsmore, concluded this day by joining the activities organized by Unify on this day of global mobilization. Several other groups were present to form a crowd of thousands of people who also want to save humanity. "We were not officially part of the event, but when the organizer saw our banner inviting people to meditate one minute for peace, she decided that for the opening of the day, we would have one minute of silence. She asked us if we agreed to be on stage with our banner during this minute", said Dunsmore.

The peace march went on to the Mountain View Military Cemetery where the Raelian group continued to spread their message of love and peace, thinking of all the human beings who have died from violence.

For more than 40 years the Raelians have been committed defenders of non-violent and peaceful actions, following the words of their spiritual leader Maitreya Rael: "Non-violence, love and compassion is the only way to save humanity."The Raelians are inviting the public to meditate "One Minute for Peace in the World" as often as possible, at home alone or even better, in groups. Don’t miss the next gathering!

From Stéphane Salois, in charge of organizing these peaceful gatherings in Canada

]]>North AmericaElianeWSun, 28 Sep 2014 08:25:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/international-day-of-peace-in-canada-lets-meditate-one-minute-for-peace.htmlGoTopless Day 2014 in Canada – To liberate women from old taboos!http://raelianews.org/gotopless-day-2014-in-canada-to-liberate-women-from-old-taboos.html
The struggle for equality between women and men is first and foremost the fight of millions of women around the world whose most basic rights are violated. While in some countries it is forbidden for a woman to simply drive a car, it is the responsibility of women in the "more advanced" countries to go out on the streets and protest so that a real equality of the genders sees the light of day.

This is exactly what many Raelian women did from coast to coast in Canada on August 24, 2014 during GoTopless Day!

Even though it is legal for women to be topless in public in Ontario and British Columbia, attitudes may not have followed legalization to the point where all women feel totally comfortable walking around topless wherever they feel like it. The reactions to the GoTopless event, be it from the media or the passersby, showed the usefulness of holding such an event; especially knowing that a few days later, after the GoTopless Day in Montreal, a three-year-old girl who was swimming topless peacefully in a public swimming pool was threatened with expulsion by the lifeguards if she did not put a top on. See also our press release on this story here.

About forty people supported Denise Belisle, leader for this event in Vancouver, by parading on Robson Street in a convertible while people jostled on sidewalks in order to have a closer view of the topless women. Smart phones and cameras were constantly clicking but the most important are the words articulated by Denise to raise awareness. In her megaphone, she asked men to respect women as they want to be respected themselves. She also asked those present to take a minute and think about all the women around the world who are treated badly.

In Toronto, Diane Brisebois and her team went to the beach for GoTopless Day. Several Toronto media covered the event by supporting this cause. Funny thing, a CP24 reporter questioned people whether they agreed that women should have the right to go topless on the beach, all answered with a "Yes"! It seems public opinion is perhaps better than we could imagine.

In Montreal, about thirty people supported the event leader Nadia Salois at the bottom of Mount Royal. This is the first time we held the event by the monument Georges-Étienne Cartier on which is inscribed: "Canada should be a country of freedom and all freedoms must be protected by law – Cartier 1867." It is in this context that Raelian women formally asked Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair, the respective leaders of the Liberal and NDP parties, to enforce the Constitution. In a press release, Sylvie Chabot, Raelian priest and spokesperson of the event, answered the following when asked why it is necessary that the law changes: "Because the Constitution guarantees equal rights for both women and men, yet there are laws that go against the Constitution!" And it is not the Conservative party in power, with its retrograde laws, that will bring advances to this cause! There was everything on that day, women from different cultures who have shown their support for this cause, but also, according to Sylvie Chabot, the huge crowd of photographers caused by the event, mainly men, showing that there is still some work that needs to be done to have attitudes changed and for it to become normal to see women's breasts in public.

In this excerpt from a video where Rael talks about the need for women to go topless in order to assert their rights to equality with men, we understand the significance of the GoTopless event, it being a step of primary importance to lead humanity on the path of peace and love: "When you do not love yourself, when you feel guilty towards yourself, towards your sex, towards your nakedness , then you develop some hatred for others. And if you begin to love yourself, to feel free, to enjoy being topless, you will not want to attack anyone and self-love creates love from others, and increases peace and love on the planet."]]>North AmericaElianeWSat, 20 Sep 2014 18:50:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/gotopless-day-2014-in-canada-to-liberate-women-from-old-taboos.htmlA unique afternoon in the streets of Toronto, a robot talks about Paradism!http://raelianews.org/a-unique-afternoon-in-the-streets-of-toronto-a-robot-talks-about-paradism.html
Nicole Bertrand, Bishop Guide and spokesperson for the event, first offered us, in a press conference, a very convincing summary of what Paradism means and its applications.

She stated that Paradism is a new socio-political system that wants, amongst other things, to help replace human workers by robots, a global social phenomenon that will quickly replace competition and greed by cooperation and collaboration. This transformation is not a dream of science fiction, as pointed out by Mrs. Bertrand. We have already developed all the necessary technology and we could get there in just a few years. She added: "If we are treated as dreamers, we dream with open eyes ... this is already happening now." She also quoted Rael, founder of the Paradism, who has stated in the past: "There is no reason to be poor with our current level of technology."

Mark Proulx, Raelian Guide and robotics engineer for 25 years, confirmed these statements, indicating that: "The greatest obstacle to the establishment of a world without work through automation, is in people’s minds; individuals, unions and governments." To turn the situation around and overthrow these unfounded fears, the only path is by education and information.

Joseph Kollar, also Raelian Priest Guide and robotics technician for over 20 years, stressed the imminent disappearance of factory workers. "These industries are already struggling to find qualified personnel because the young generation understood before us that there is no incentive in working 9 to 5. Our technological progress already allows us to only wish to work in a fulfilling and exciting field."

Immediately after the press conference, broadcasted live via the internet, the audience was invited to follow Sico on the streets of Toronto where he would walk past the passers-by of the busiest intersection in Canada on this beautiful warm late summer day.

The public's response was stunning, with hundreds of people gathering around the robot that called them out and answered back with a really charming humor. Preston, the technician in charge of the robot, was the first to completely get excited about the event, to the point of forgetting the delayed lunch time. There were several fascinated kids like the one who wanted to offer his car-toy to the robot, just before starting to dance as only children can do. Many people, and even entire groups, attracted by this nice android’s paradist speech, wanted to have their picture taken with him, but the highlight was the people response on Sico’s invitations to dance. A flood of photos and videos were taken with a promise to put them immediately on social media, see here for many more event photos.

Faced with such enthusiasm from the public, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the change only depends on the will of governments. We can tomorrow live in this world we dream of. That's why Mrs. Bertrand added: "We ask the government to stop military spending that serve only to destroy and instead finance companies that promote more free time for their employees through research and development. If our leaders do not follow the change, they may simply suffer more, because nothing can stop this transformation already underway."

If the Raelians were on the streets with Sico, it was primarily to educate people, because the best thing anyone can do to accelerate the establishment of Paradism is to tell others around us. "People are frightened by this new technology simply because they are afraid of losing the comfort they have gained through their so hard work. You can talk to them and reassure that everything is in place for a much better life and it is accessible now. There is only one condition to this implementation and that is also what Paradism promotes. The government should move in this direction with the absolute concern for sharing the benefits of this release from working with the entire population", concluded Nicole Bertrand, at the end of this extraordinary adventure spreading the future values of our humanity.

]]>North AmericaElianeWSat, 20 Sep 2014 10:50:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/a-unique-afternoon-in-the-streets-of-toronto-a-robot-talks-about-paradism.htmlSwastika Rehabilitation Week in Canadahttp://raelianews.org/swastika-rehabilitation-week-in-canada.html
In Canada, Raelians have held their events on Saturday, July 12 and once again this year, the campaign has not gone unnoticed despite the refusal from the giant billboard owners, claiming that it would displease some communities.

In Quebec City, 25 people participated in this event with a human size balloon, placards and leaflets. On a predetermined route, the Raelians crossed hundreds of people overwhelmingly positive towards us. Donald Tremblay, in charge of the Quebec City region tells us: "One of the highlights was to meet a group of tourists from India ... you imagine their reaction! On the way back, a few interested people to who we handed out flyers went directly online to access our site. The event lasted almost three hours and it was a great success! What a great team, what a beautiful harmony!!! "

Meanwhile, in Toronto, the regional team met in High Park, where the Raelians created swastikas on the grass using their bodies, and of course distributed cards with enthusiasm while contacting passers-by along the lake for great conversations with interested and open people. Patrick Rheims, head of Toronto, tells us his impressions of the day: "I'm sure we opened the minds of many people today, such as this Jewish woman, upset, asking us what we were doing exactly. After hearing our explanation, she calmed down and "the work was done." A seed was planted and one mind was opened. At the end of the day, we could see that our warmth and behavior clearly created an impact on the public, for which the association between the swastika and our harmony might prevail now."

In Montreal, fifty Raelians gathered in a popular park downtown (where the famous Mont-Royal Tam-tams resonate). In front of a beautiful banner (visible also for people traveling by car), we informed passers-by and left many cards giving the explanation about our worldwide action to rehabilitate the swastika. "We had positive reactions and also strong emotional reactions, which confirms the importance of our work", said Nadia Salois, Regional Guide of Greater Montreal, beautifully summing up the reason of our presence in this beautiful day.

Three hours later, the Raelians in Vancouver took over in support of this action for the Swastika Rehabilitation Week. The event started with a meditation on serenity, peace and love. After installing the banner and inflating the balloons, a Raelian wandered topless inside the big Swastika balloon, which created a lot of interest of passers-bys, said David Dunsmore, Guide in charge of the event in Vancouver: "People were very sensitive and respectful throughout our action. It was such a pleasure to know that we represent not only the spiritual Raelian symbol, but also the symbol of infinity of the Elohim, our Creators, through which we have the privilege to make it known to all humanity."

Fabrice Piché, Guide in charge for this event in Canada was very happy with this pan-Canadian event. Fabrice is looking forward to repeat the activity next year in the hope that other groups wishing to rehabilitate the swastika will join us.

Quebec City: http://proswastika.org/news.php?list.8.6Toronto: http://proswastika.org/news.php?list.8.4Montreal: http://proswastika.org/news.php?list.8.3Vancouver: http://proswastika.org/news.php?list.8.5]]>North AmericaElianeWSat, 26 Jul 2014 10:30:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/swastika-rehabilitation-week-in-canada.htmlCampaign for the Rehabilitation of the Swastika Continueshttp://raelianews.org/campaign-for-the-rehabilitation-of-the-swastika-continues.html
For several years, Raelians have been campaigning for the reeducation regarding the swastika - a symbol which, for the West, largely holds only one meaning while for the East it has a very, very different meaning. This year's campaign was bigger than ever - so big that the campaign was extended to a full week! Raelians from all over the world held "swastika reeducation" demonstrations in countries all throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa and Oceania. You can see colorful photos of this year's reeducation campaign on www.proswastika.org, but the largest story was when a plane flew a swastika banner over New York and New Jersey. Of course New York being known for its large Jewish community, many people were shocked to see a swastika banner being flown over New York and New Jersey beaches.

If you are reading this, you might be among the millions of people who are asking Raelians why we would want to do such a thing. Why would we want to fly a banner with a swastika? Why we would want to openly display "the Nazi symbol"? How could we be so insensitive to the horrors endured by Jews at the hands of deranged Nazis in WWII?

First of all, it needs to be stated that we deeply sympathize with the Jewish people for what they endured. Our philosophy is one of complete nonviolence as well as recognizing the Jewish race as being the chosen people.

Regarding the swastika, the fact is that the Nazis did not create the swastika. They simply used an already existing symbol in a completely opposite way in which it was originally intended thus attaching a new and betrayed meaning to it. The swastika is indeed a very ancient symbol (thousands of years before Hitler) which represented peace, well being and harmony. It is a deeply revered religious symbol for over 1.4 billion people all throughout the world, especially in Asia, just as the crucifix is a religious symbol which millions of Westerners hold dear. The more than 1.4 billion people in Asia are not hiding their billions of swastikas in shame - and rightfully so! They had nothing to do with harming the Jews and they are not allowing what Hitler did to tarnish their holy symbol even if they are surely not feeling well about the West hating their precious religious symbol.

What we are doing as Raelians is similar. We are reeducating the West about the true meaning of the swastika in order to reclaim it from the monsters who used it as a symbol of hate. This is the best way to heal this wound.

To help put it in perspective, ask yourself these questions. If the Nazis would have used the crucifix instead of the Swastika do you think Christians would have agreed to ban the crucifix? Of course not!!

Try also to imagine how the millions of people killed under the crucifix during the Crusades, Inquisitions, holy wars, by conquistadores, etc. felt under the crucifix while being tortured and killed. The crucifix was a symbol of hate for these people whose only crime was to be different. Yet it is everywhere today.

And what of the hate promoted with the crucifix by the KKK? Still, crucifixes everywhere.

And surely the families of those killed by Christians wielding crucifixes saw it as a symbol of hate and held great resentment toward the crucifix just as the families of those who suffered or died at the hands of the Nazis hold resentment toward the swastika. The Crusades, Inquisitions, holy wars, Conquistadores tortured and killed many times the 6,000,000 Jews who suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Yet society forgot about that terrible wrong done by (supposed) Christians and crucifixes are everywhere on the planet without any memory of Christianity's atrocities!

The context begins to take on a new meaning when we think of things from different perspectives like this. So why should more than 1,400,000,000 Hindus, Buddhists and others have to feel shame about their holy symbols? Or why should the swastika be banned in the West? There is no good reason when we consider the above.

Similarly, Raelians find it strange that millions of Christians cherish the crucifix which was nothing but an instrument of torture, humiliation and death for many, many thousands of people. But we understand how and why this is the current reality. The reason is that winners of the wars write the history and this is what the West is trying to do by banning the Swastika.

Raelians, like Hindus, Buddhists and other religions which revere the swastika will continue to, with love and compassion, reeducate the West about the swastika.

So yes, the swastika is a symbol which Raelians hold deep, positive meaning for as well. :-) The swastika is a part of Raelians' official symbol - a symbol coming directly from the Elohim, who are the extraterrestrials (referred to in the Bible, Koran and Torah) who created humanity thousands of years ago and Whom Rael met in 1973 and 1975. This symbol from our Creators consists of a six pointed star intertwined with the swastika and it signifies infinity in space as well as infinity in time - which is an extremely interesting concept and we invite you to read how The Elohim explain this simple yet revolutionary concept which changes, literally, everything! (free download on www.rael.org)

Ricky RoehrContinental Guide for North America

]]>North AmericaadminFri, 18 Jul 2014 10:30:00 +0000http://raelianews.org/campaign-for-the-rehabilitation-of-the-swastika-continues.htmlRaelian Guide Negar in support of "Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian women"http://raelianews.org/raelian-guide-negar-in-support-of-stealthy-freedoms-of-iranian-women.html
"Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian women,” is a new group created on Facebook, posting photos of brave Iranian women who have taken off their veils in public places for a little while. Sometimes they do this in natural surroundings, and sometimes they do it next to signs of warning about wearing the hijab. Some even do it next to the supreme leader's statue! https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom

Along with posting the photos, the women have also posted statements of their willingness to live in a free society and have freedom of choice about their own lifestyles.

Here is one such post:

"It is not easy at all to be called a whore just because you do not wear the hijab, and then even get beaten and be given a detention! It is not easy to have to experience all good feelings in secret.”

I know that not only is it not easy, but that it’s outrageous!

Reading that statement just took me back to six years ago, to the streets of Tehran, when I was beaten brutally and detained for a couple of hours and then had to appear in court, all for just wearing an overcoat to my knees that was considered too short. (Even though I had pants underneath!)

The International topless activist movement, Femen, has also supported this trend of taking off the hijab, pronouncing it a beautiful act of courage on its Facebook page while asking: "Now, can you still say that the veil is simply cultural?"

The answer is clearly, no, it's not, and it has never been! At least not for the majority in the big cities of Iran.

In 1979, after the Islamists won the game and robbed the revolution many people believed in, women protested on the streets after it became a national law for women to wear the hijab. These protesters were simply called "courtier whores" in the mainstream newspapers of the government.

So this is not a new story, but it has to stop anyhow!

Meanwhile, the former president of the U.S., Jimmy Carter, is taking part in the protest.

He is launching "a call to action” after traveling to more than 140 countries around the globe and finding so many violations of women's rights. Although most people around the world don’t know it, many such violations are happening in his own country, the United States, and he even mentions some experiences about female abuse in his own family.

He declares in his audio book, "A Call to Action; Women, Religion, Violence, and Power,” that the United States is 23rd among nations when in terms of honoring equal rights between men and women. This simply shows that, no matter what claims we make, humanity needs a vast revolution in consciousness to end all the primitiveness and barbarism. Religions are still playing a major role in keeping us back in the Dark Ages.

However, change is inevitable.

As a guide in one of the frontier movements seeking change, and as one who knows about the true possibility of shifting to the Golden Age phase of humanity and creating paradise on Earth, I fully and actively support any liberating activity in my country, and that country will hopefully soon be called Planet Earth!